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unusual facts about Old Road



Principality of Slutsk

Occupied the territory of the Neman and Lani to bird and Pripyat, the city included Slutsk, Kopylov Petric, Timkovichi, Urechye, Luban, Old Road, Umgovichi, Tal, Tundra and others.

William Truesdale

Built to replace the DL&W's "Old Road", this enormous construction project involved huge amounts of cut and fill through the Pequest Valley of northwest New Jersey.


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1979 24 Hours of Le Mans

The German-based Kremer team managed to win Le Mans using a highly modified version of the 935, which is a remarkable success for a car based on a 15 year old road car design.

Aligorhi Barhi

Taleb Mohammed Lodi jame Mosjid (Mathiura oldest Mosjid), Centre Mathiura Govt Model Primary School (Mathiura oldest School), ME Madresha (Mathiura oldest Madresha), Mathiura High School, Mathiura Alia Madresha, Mathiura Post Office, Mathiura Bazar, Mathiura old Road were established by the famous persons of the Aligorhi Barhi.

Basi

On April 31, 2012, San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur officials (Governor Deogracias Victor “DV” Savellano and Rep. Ronald Singson) commemorated the “basi revolt.” Recently, the Sangguniang Bayan of San Ildefonso approved a resolution declaring September 16 as a non-working holiday and named the old road in Gongogong as Ambaristo street in honor Pedro Ambaristo, leader of the Basi Revolt.

Brig-Glis

The construction of the new road over the Simplon Pass in 1801-05, the expansion of the old road between 1949–60 and the construction of a national highway starting in 1960, have allowed increasing traffic through Brig. In 1890-1905 stagecoaches transported 152,816 persons to Domodossola over the pass.

Crayford

They play at Oakwood stadium, on Old Road, Crayford, who they share with Kent Football United F.C..

Denzlingen

Medieval Denzlingen consisted of two separate settlements, Niederdorf and Oberdorf (Lower Village and Upper Village), both on the Glotter and alongside an old road from Riegel to the Glottertal.

Headington Road

The road did not exist until 1775, when it was cut through the countryside as part of the scheme to replace the old route from Oxford to London (via Cheney Lane, Old Road, Shotover, and Wheatley) by a new road via Stokenchurch.

Kastellokampos

It is connected with the road connecting the GR-8/E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and Proasteio and Rio, it also connects direct with the old road via an underpass.

Killamarsh

The first was the North Midland Railway route from Derby to Leeds, later part of the Midland Railway and later still the LMS, whose station was Killamarsh West, located on the section known as the "Old Road": the original direct route between Chesterfield and Rotherham avoiding Sheffield.

Knowlton Township, New Jersey

In their heyday, however, two rail lines and three railroads served the town of Delaware: the New York, Susquehanna and Western (formerly Blairstown) Railway; and the Old Road of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (which also had granted trackage rights to the Pennsylvania Railroad, technically a sixth railroad).

Lackawanna Old Road

The storm also washed out the Pennsylvania Railroad's Bel-Del Railroad north of Belvidere, New Jersey, leading the railroad to remove the section north to the junction of the Old Road at Manunka Chunk and end PRR service from Trenton, New Jersey, to East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

On June 16, 1925, a passenger train carrying German-American tourists from Chicago to Hoboken was slated to run over the Lackawanna Cut-Off, but in order to avoid freight trains on the line the special train was diverted onto the Old Road to Port Morris.

Louisiana Highway 77

The current LA 77 follows the routing of the original Jefferson Highway, and the LA 77 alignment follows the old road to meet LA 10 West.

Lučko

Lučko is a suburban neighborhood situated on the edge of the Novi Zagreb - zapad district of Zagreb, Croatia, located south of the Sava and southwest of the city center, near the Lučko interchange that connects the Zagreb-Karlovac motorway, the Zagreb bypass and the old road to Karlovac.

Lusk's Ferry Road

Modern U.S. Route 45 crosses this area, but perpendicular to the apparent route of the old road.

Norbert Singer

Singer was then given the task of developing the Porsche 911 road car for racing, and in doing so he created eventually what is by far the most successful customer race car that Porsche ever produced: the Porsche 935 won at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, a remarkable feat for a modified 15 year old road car design.

Poussay

It was in the village, dominating from its a limestone outcrop the Madon Valley, and also positioned across the old road from Nancy, that the great essayist Montaigne stayed around 1580 before he proceeded to Plombières en route for Italy.

Sawyers Bay

Upper Junction Road, the winding old road to Port Chalmers from the Dunedin suburb of North East Valley, rises to join with the old Mount Cargill road, which was itself the former main road north out of Dunedin, linking the city's main urban area at Normanby with Waitati.

Shurdhah Island

The town was strategically located on the old road from Shkodër to Gjakova and served as a resting point along the trade route.

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Strasburg, Pennsylvania

However, in 1793 construction on the new Strasburg Road started, roughly following the old road, passing through West Chester on the way to Philadelphia.

Therapnes

The villages of Therapnes are in essence on or near the old road that led from Therapne or Dorian Sparta over Platanaki Pass just south of the main peak of Parnon to what is now South Kynouria in the eastern foreland of Parnonas and the Argolic and Myrtoan Gulfs.

U.S. Route 192

Portions of this road have been closed to the public, as the old road runs past Mercury Marine's former Lake X landing strip.

Walmersley

The old road was one of the many roads in east Lancashire constructed by John Metcalf, perhaps better known as Blind Jack Metcalf, a civil engineer from Knaresborough.